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Eurovision participant from Russia banned from entering Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has banned Russian singer Yuliya Samoylova from entering the country for three years, although she was meant to represent Russia at the international competition “Eurovision” which will be held in Kyiv in 2017.“The decision was made on the basis of information received about her violating Ukrainian legislation [entering the territory of the Crimea, which is temporarily not controlled by Kyiv, in violation of the procedure established by Ukraine, in 2015]” …
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Russia is building a large number of warships
Military shipbuilding enterprises in Russia are busy with orders that will run through to 2023. During a press briefing, the President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation said, "With regard to military shipbuilding, it's true that presently we are busy until 2021-2023. Most of our enterprises have never experienced such a load, not even during the Soviet era.”
"Presently, the number of years and projects that will comprise the load on each of the shipyards in the future varies greatly. Now …
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Polish Defense Minister accuses Tusk of making a deal with Putin
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz has accused the former Prime Minister of Poland and current President of the European Council Donald Tusk of making an “illegal deal” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reported by Polskie Radio.
According to Macierewicz, Tusk deliberately did not order an investigation into the plane crash near Smolensk because he had made an agreement about it with Russia.
“Premier Donald Tusk made an illegal deal with Vladimir Putin at the expense of Poland, …
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Media: At least 27 German banks laundered money from the Russian Federation
No fewer than 27 German banks received money that Russian cybercriminals laundered in Europe from 2010 to 2014. The accounts of German credit institutions received a total of 66.5 million dollars.
This has been reported by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), which participated in an international investigation of the scheme code-named “The Global Laundromat”.
As the newspaper notes, in all cases the money transfers came from the Moldovan Moldindconbank or the Latvian Trasta Komercbanka. …
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Witness in Montenegro coup case says former Russian diplomat was main revolt organizer
Aleksandar Sindjelic, one of the defendants in the case investigating the attempted coup in Montenegro in October last year, said that he was recruited by Eduard Shishmakov (Shirokov), former Russian diplomat and agent of the Russian GRU, the Vijesti news site reported.
According to Sindjelic, Eduard “Eddy” Shishmakov organized a group of 500 people who were supposed to bring about a coup d’état, arresting and killing Prime Minister Milo Ðukanović on voting day during the parliamentary …